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Constituency

155. Jamtara

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Bihar Assembly Election, 2000

BR-JAMTARA

INC 39.5%won by 7.8%BJP 31.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.0% to 7.8%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JMMS (JMMS) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 71.2% of the vote between them, up from 56.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,06,371
Margin
8,264
7.77%

Candidates

7 contested · winner INC
  1. 1FURKAN ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC42,00239.5%
  2. 2BISHNU PRASAD BHAIYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP33,73831.7%
  3. 3SHYAM LAL HEMBRAMJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM23,54122.1%
  4. 4JAY PRAKASH MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,5783.4%
  5. 5CHINTAMANI MANDALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,9841.9%
  6. 6ASIT KUMAR MANDALSamajwadi Party · SP8610.8%
  7. 7SHIV SHANKAR LAL MURMUIndependent · IND6670.6%

Since 1995

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–BJP swing
−6.8%
INC share
33.0% → 39.5%
BJP share
18.4% → 31.7%
Turnout
— → —
154. Nala156. Sarath
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